Important Dates & Reminders

September 1 and 4: Student Holiday, no school

September 7: Back to School Night

September 25: Student Holiday, no school

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month

Reading: 

• Readers and writers use what they know about themselves to make decisions about how they work independently during the workshop.
• Readers are flexible in their thinking, using discussion to uncover layers of meaning during read aloud

Writing: 

• Writers match their choice of genre and form with the purpose of their writing.
• Writers build relationships within the classroom with their writing partner by providing feedback to each others work.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Reading: 

• Readers evaluate character development against their own experiences to create new understandings about life lessons. 
• Readers analyze the choices the writer/illustrator makes to construct power, position, and perspectives.

Writing: 

• Writers use elaboration techniques (dialogue, character & setting description) to create their memoirs 
• Writers bring out personal or historical conflicts to reveal recurring themes.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month

Students learned:

• In this unit, students continue to develop number sense with fractions and decimals and begin thinking about percents. 
• They also began to work with ratios and how ratios relate to fractions
• The focus in this unit is on building understanding of ratios and how they are used to model  and solve real-world problems.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Students are learning:

• How to represent and determine equivalencies among fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents.
• How to determine the unit rate of a proportional relationship and use it to find a missing value in a ratio table.

Advanced Math

What We Learned This Past Month

Students Learned: 

• This unit emphasizes the rational number system and ordering positive and negative rational numbers.
•  Students developed an understanding that any rational number can be represented in fraction, decimal, and percent form and continue to have equivalent value. 
• Students have been solving real-world problems with rational numbers in various forms. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Students are learning:

•  to multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers
• To solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers.
• To solve multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month

Unit: Patterns in Weather

Students learned

• How to track hurricanes!
• properties of air, the structure of the atmosphere, weather, and air quality

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Unit: Astronomy

Students are learning:

• The history of space exploration. 
• Students will develop their understanding of the nature of science, particularly the concept that scientific ideas are durable and yet subject to change as new data are collected

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month

Students Learned: 

• About digital citizenship, how to use the school device properly with respect and responsibility
• Student Rights and Responsibilities throughout the school and in the classroom

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Students are learning:

• Patriot’s Day, remembering September 11
• Constitution Day

Portrait of a Graduate & Concepts

What We Learned This Past Month

Students Learned: 

Portrait of Graduate Skill:  Communicator

• Students learned that they speak so that others can understand them - this was practiced in Morning Meeting and Language Arts
• Students learned that they write to express opinions and ideas - this was practiced in Language Arts, sharing written ideas about First Day Jitters and good friend character traits.

Concept Skill: Systems

• Students learned that TLES is a system, each classroom is a system, the cafeteria is a system
• They are learning that there are systems all around the school, their homes and community.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Students are learning:

Portrait of Graduate Skill:  Communicator

• Students will learn that they are communicators in Math and Science too.
• They will continue to practice sharing ideas with one another in all subject areas.
• Students will continue to use written communication to express opinions and ideas in Math and Science.

Concept Skill: Systems

• Students will discover the many systems that exist in Math, Science and Language Arts.